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What does missa mean?

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  1. (music) a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgical service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome)
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The concert includes Mozart's Requiem, Missa Brevis, operatic arias and music for the Christmas season.
At first it was to have been a missa brevis, but the rest was added later.
The term missa has come to imply a 'mission', because at the end of the Mass the congregation are sent out to serve Christ.
As shown above, Bach combined the Kyrie and Gloria into the Missa, according to the common practice of that time.
Stubbings is a previous Master of the Music and Missa Stella Splendens is a festal congregational communion setting.
For the Mass the rule is that there are six lights at High Mass, four at a missa cantata, and two at private masses.

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